[Les Paul]

1974 I was going to school at KU in Lawrence Ks. My dad flew into KC on biz and we had a day to waste. At the time the local Foreign car place always had a great selection of used eclectic cars. They had an actual Abarth Porsche race car. We are just looking and a salesman comes out like the Christmas tree salesman on Christmas story. Pop the rear deck checking it out and my dad was impressed with the dual ignition being a pilot. Salesman goes you want to take it for a spin? Uh, yea. Fire it up and it’s pretty loud naturally. About a quarter mile drive down to an empty Cul de Sac. The car had a full cage and fiberglass seats no cushions. When it hit 4K it just screamed to 7500. Get back in the parking lot grins on our faces. Salesman goes, we are asking 2,700 but we would take less. Of course I didn’t have any extra money and my dad pointed out no heat in Lawrence Ks not a good idea. Talk about regretting that forever.